US Patent Issued to The Children's Medical Center on July 1 for "Instrument port with fluid flush system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,992, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Instrument port with fluid flush system" was invented by Anthony Maiorano (Waltham, Mass.) and Jeffrey C. Cerier (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least some aspects, an instrument port for introducing an instrument into a surgical site comprises: a port body having: an instrument channel extending through the port body; and a plurality of fluid flush channels each separate from one another and the instrument channel, each extending along a major portion of the port body and in fluid communication with the instrument channel; and ...